Showing that at any time, the scientific consensus may be totally wrong:--

Quote from: Richard A. Proctor--Pleasant Ways in Science

We examine Mercury and Venus very nearly under the conditions here imagined;for we can obtain only spectroscopic evidence respecting the existence ofwater on either planet. In the case of Mars we have telescopic evidence,and no one now doubts that the greenish parts of the planet are seasand oceans.

Lincoln Six Echo: Hey, what’s with Dr Merrick?Mac: You mean, why does he act like he’s got a filing cabinet shoved up his ass?Lincoln Six Echo: [Spluttering laugh] Yeah.Mac: It’s called a “God complex.” All doctors are like that. They think they know everything.Lincoln Six Echo: What’s God?Mac: Well, you know when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you.Lincoln Six Echo: Oh, right.

In America, only the successful writers are important, in France, all writers are important, in England, no writers are important, and in Australia, you have to explain what a writer is. - Geoffrey Cottrell

In America, only the successful writers are important, in France, all writers are important, in England, no writers are important, and in Australia, you have to explain what a writer is. - Geoffrey Cottrell

I like America. It's the only nation that managed to go from barbarism to decadence without having civilization in between.

Sounds great. With your enochlophobia, Venice and Florence will not suit you either - one of the reasons I don't travel any more (the others being, and this list is not limitative, chronic irreversible degenerative queueophobia, suitcaseophobia, waitingaroundophobia, eurosdownthedrainformealsIcanmakebettermyselfathomeophobia).

Sounds great. With your enochlophobia, Venice and Florence will not suit you either - one of the reasons I don't travel any more (the others being, and this list is not limitative, chronic irreversible degenerative queueophobia, suitcaseophobia, waitingaroundophobia, eurosdownthedrainformealsIcanmakebettermyselfathomeophobia).